India vs Australia HIGHLIGHTS, Women’s Test Day 4: IND secures historic win, beats AUS by eight wickets

There’s plenty of action left in this series, starting with the the ODI series. While Australia might have conceded the Test, you can count on them to come back all guns blazing. We will keep you posted with all the latest news and updates from the series. Until the next match, it is goodbye!

It is a reward for the hard work over the years. Credit to the coaches. We just try to keep it simple. We just thought if we can play positive cricket, that is why we put Richa up the order. We just wanted to keep putting the pressure. We just had to stay in the moment. We tried our best to get them early in the second innings, but that partnership in the middle did not let us. But we kept our faith in our bowling and it worked. I want to thank BCCI for giving us this chance to play Tests. Hopefully, there’s more coming for us. 

It feels amazing after a fantastic win by our team. My batting promotion was not just to be a night watchman. It was my first time batting with Smriti. I just think that if the captain is showing faith by asking me to bowl, I want to repay it. This has to be at the top. A Test is being played in India after so long. It is a big thing for the fans too. I think these two wins should attract a lot of young players.

What an amazing experience to come and play here. Not easy to win. It was our first match here so we’re learning on our feet. Credit to India who continued to put pressure on us. I think if we would have been able to bat for the full first day. If we had over 300, we would have given us an opportunity. There’s still six games left in the series and there’s a lot left to play for.

Smriti Mandhana: I think it was not that difficult as well (to bat). It looked like a rank turner but if you applied yourself it was not that tough. I think credit to Deepti and Pooja to get us back (in the first innings). I and Shafali just wanted to react to the ball (during the chase).

Jemimah Rodrigues: Test cricket is something you always want to bat. Getting two back-to-back half centuries, I think Christmas came early. I just wanted to be consistent with the process and the results will follow. The bowlers have inspired me to bowl. 

Pooja Vastrakar: Very happy. We’ve created history. 

Renuka Singh: The main thing he (Troy Cooley) tells is to have patience. The more patient you are, the likelier you are to get a wicket. The celebrations are a secret.

Jonassen to Jemimah. A soft push to mid wicket for one. FOUR! MANDHANA HITS THE WINNING RUNS! Mandhana dances down and tonks over the bowler to get the job done for her side. 

FOUR! Jemimah sweeps for the first time this innings and sends it to the fence. A single off the final delivery to keep strike. India just five away from taking the honours.

Jonassen to Jemimah. Opens the face of the bat to run the ball to third man and pick a single. FOUR! Overpitched by the bowler and Mandhana digs it out to breach the fence. 

WICKET! Gardner removes Richa! She wants to slog sweep but hands a leading edge to the mid on fielder.

Richa Ghosh c McGrath b Gardner 13 (32)

Jemimah Rodrigues starts with a cover drive for FOUR! A single off the fifth delivery.

Jes Jonassen to bowl now. Two runs for Mandhana, gets an inside edge which runs deep to fine leg. FOUR off the final delivery. Lofts a full delivery right back over the bowler’s head.

Mandhana glances Gardner’s second delivery to fine leg for a single. That’s the solitary run from the over.

McGrath again. Healy stands up at the stumps. Two runs, Mandhana drives to covers and a misfield allows a second run. FOUR! This time the drive is better timed and pierces the cover and mid off fielders. FOUR for Richa! Another edge which yields a boundary for Richa. 11 runs from the over.

Just one off Gardner’s over. Mandhana leans forward to defend but gets an inside edge. The ball runs to the square leg region which allows the time to run a single.

Tahlia McGrath for her first over. Three runs in the over. The final delivery sees Richa edge on a drive but the ball lands in front of the backward point fielder.

Ash Gardner resumes attack. Richa Ghosh on strike. Edge and four! A drive induces an edge but it is clear of the slip fielder and races to the fence. 

Mandhana and Ghosh are back in the middle. India 46 away from a historic win.

India moves to the cusp of a historic Test win at home, just 46 away from the finish line. Australia managed only 28 runs for its last five wickets today with Sneh Rana, Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Pooja Vastrakar coming to the fore. 

Garth strays one way down the leg-side for FOUR byes. And India heads to Lunch with 46 runs to win.

Mandhana taps Richa through cover and reels in a quick single. 

Richa opens her account off the 12th delivery as a misfield at mid-off concedes a FOUR.

Gardner skims through a tight over for a maiden.

Garth continues to keep a fine line of attack. Mandhana taps a few through point but fails to beat the ring fielders. Garth overpitches and Mandhana creams the ball through cover for FOUR this time. FOUR more as Garth offers width again for Mandhana to slap through cover.

Gardner to Ghosh, DROPPED! Sharp outside-edge off Ghosh and Mooney fails to latch onto a sharp catch.

Maiden for Garth as she attempts to slide the ball in towards Mandhana’s off-stump. Impressive lines.

Ash Gardner from the opposite end. A couple of loopy deliveries and Mandhana digs it out from length. Mandhana gets an inside-edge down towards fine-leg for a single. 

A half-tracker first-up and Shafali slaps it through cover for FOUR first ball. Garth to Shafali, OUT! A beautiful delivery that shapes away from length and Garth finds the outside-edge off Shafali to Healy. Richa Ghosh is in at 3.

Shafali Verma c †Healy b Garth 4 (4b 1x4)

Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma walk out to the middle. Kim Garth takes the new ball.

Jonassen drives Gayakwad down to long-off but decides against a single. Three dots on the trot. Can she manage a little single here? Gayakwad to Jonassen, OUT! Through the gates. Two superb deliveries from Gayakwad at the end wraps up the Australian innings. She pitches on length and draws Jonassen forward but the ball drifts in sharply to hit the stumps. 

India needs 75 runs to record a historic Test win at Wankhede.

Jess Jonassen b Gayakwad 9 (42b 1x4)

Jonassen shields Cheatle and takes a single off Rana’s fifth delivery. Cheatle survives the last delivery as it keeps low and zips past the off-stump.

Rajeshwari Gayakwad replaces Deepti.

Rajeshwari to Garth, OUT! A corker. A beauty that pitches on length and turns to hit top of off. Garth cannot do much about that. Lauren Cheatle walks in at 11.

Kim Garth b Gayakwad 4 (8b 1x4)

Rana offes room and Jonassen slaps it behind point for FOUR. Rana slides the ball in towards Jonassen’s pads. Loud shout for a leg-before and India reviews this time. Bat/pad first is the question. Wickets missing as the ball scuttles down leg. India exhausts its reviews.

Jonassen finds a single off the fourth ball from Deepti. Deepti overpitches and Garth slices one down through third for FOUR.

LOUD APPEAL. Sutherland miscues the slog-sweep off her gloves to Yastika but the umpire is unmoved. India reviews and there’s a clear contact with the gloves! Huge wicket as Sutherland’s rearguard of 102 balls comes to an end. Alana King goes first ball! OUT! A full delivery pitches right in the blockhole and King attempts to dig it out but the rolls over to knock the stumps. Kim Garth is in at 10. Rana nearly has the hat-trick but Garth manages to keep out a straight delivery. A yorker nearly breaches the defences but Garth gets some wood on it. 

Annabel Sutherland c †Bhatia b Rana 27 (102b 3x4); Alana King b Rana 0 (1b)

BEATEN. Deepti wafts one through the air and rushes it past Jonassen’s hanging blade outside the off-stump with sharp spin. Maiden.

Rana overpitches and Sutherland drills the ball down the ground past mid-on for FOUR.

EDGED and just short. Sutherland errs by rocking to the backfoot and slices one towards Deepti at first-slip. 

Deepti Sharma into the attack. Another maiden as Jonassen prods forward to keep Deepti away from the rough patches. 

Rana replaces Renuka. A probing over from Rana but Sutherland keeps the anchor down efficiently. Maiden.

Vastrakar tightens her lines to Jonassen and Sutherland. No easy runs on the cards at the moment. Just one from it.

Renuka slides another one down leg and Sutherland works it through mid-wicket for another FOUR.

Sutherland drives a full ball through cover for a single. Length from Vastrakar again and Jonassen clips the ball through mid-wicket for two runs.

Thakur to Sutherland, OUT! That looks plumb and given. Renuka angles the ball in to hit Sutherland low on the pads. Australia reviews nevertheless. Decision overturned as the ball slides down leg. Moves a bit too much in the end. Renuka strays to the pads and Sutherland flicks it through mid-wicket for three runs. 

Vastrakar finds an inside-edge off Gardner towards square leg first ball. Loud shout as Vastrakar dips one right on Gardner’s toe. India reviews.

THREE REDS! A cracking review from India and Vastrakar strikes in her first over.

Jess Jonassen is in at 8. Vastrakar raps one on the front pad. Looks like it has pitched outside leg-stump but India reviews again! Pitching outside leg and India loses it this time.

Ashleigh Gardner lbw b Vastrakar 7 (27b 1x4)

Fine line of attack first-up from Renuka and Sutherland stands up for it with a solid defence. Renuka goes wide off the crease and slides one in towards the pads. Maiden.

Annabel Sutherland and Ash Gardner return to the middle. Renuka Thakur will operate with the second new ball.

Her arms outstretched like wings, Harmanpreet Kaur sprinted towards her team-mates as a few hundred spectators chanted her name at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday.

It was the final hour of third day’s play and the Indian captain brought herself into the attack in the 72nd over as nothing seemed to be working for her bowlers with Tahlia McGrath (73, 177b, 10x4) and Alyssa Healy (32, 101b, 1x4) consolidating Australia’s innings.

There was a huge appeal on the first delivery, but the DRS confirmed that the ball was sliding down leg, thus giving McGrath a sigh of relief. 

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